The login window appears after you turn on, restart, or log out of your Mac. It's not the same as the window you might see when waking your Mac from sleep or stopping the screen saver, though it uses the same password.
I am running MacOS High Sierra on a Macbook air and this is the screen that usually comes up on booting.The mac starts up after typing the right password. From yesterday after restarting, after typing the password on this screen, a new screen comes up asking for a username and password.This is new and has never happened before. The unusual screen looks like thisI have tried the username and password used in the previous screenshot but that doesnt seem to work. The wallpaper that comes up is mine hence I don't suspect a hard drive crash.Any solutions for this problem? How to go about this?
Username And Password For Mac
If you remember the name that Mac shows, every time in admin access window (while unlocking any settings or installing any App). You need to enter that same username and password. Once logged in, immediately changes the setting as said by @user14492.
Most home users of Mac computers set their Macs to login without the need of a username or password, by just pressing one button they have access to their Mac and applications and all their data. This is not the same case if you work for a company that has strict confidentiality policies where you are required to have an intrinsic set of username and password to be able to access your Mac computer. In most cases you will be required to type them in every time you need to log in.
So the next time you forget your Mac user name or password and are unable to retrieve or reset them, you can recover your data and clean install your Mac, knowing your pictures, documents and important files are all safe.
when you log out and log in once again in the login window you will see name and password but the arrow is on left of enter password as shown in your screen shot was it taken by a camera as it is in opposite direction . For normal working machine it always shows towards right .
Did you read all the replies? You just have to enter the correct username and password, then after you're logged in go to System Preferences->Users&Groups, click Login Options, and change from "Username and Password" to "List of Users".
To add a new user account on Mac, click on Apple Logo from top Mac menu > System Preferences > Users & Groups > click the Lock button and enter admin password > click Plus button > enter the required details to create a new user account. You must be the admin of the Mac to make these changes.
Your options to retrieve the account and password you use to sign in and install or reinstall Microsoft 365, or to manage your Microsoft 365 subscription vary depending if your product is a Microsoft 365 for home or Microsoft 365 for business product.
The email account your work or school assigned to you is the same account associated with the copy of Microsoft 365 you got through your work or school. For help with this username or password, select from the options below:
After entering the wrong user password three times, you'll be asked if you want to restart your computer to view the password recovery options. Once it reboots, you'll then be asked to sign in with your Apple ID, select the user account you want to reset the password for, and then enter a new user account password.
Usually, the person who first set up the Mac has an admin account by default, but you can check by logging in to your account and opening System Preferences > Users & Groups and viewing the list of user accounts on your Mac. Just below the user name will be the account type -- if it says "Admin" you can reset user passwords.
To do so, from that same Users & Groups screen, click on the lock and enter your admin name and password when prompted. Next, select the user you need to reset the password for and then click on the button labeled Reset Password and follow the instructions.
If neither of those methods will work, you'll need to boot your Mac into Recovery Mode in order to access the password reset tool. I've found the easiest way to do that is to start by completely powering down your Mac.
With your Mac now in Recovery Mode, click on Utilities in the menu bar followed by Terminal. A new window will show up, waiting for you to enter a command. Type "resetpassword" as one word, without the quotes, and press Return.
Close the Terminal window, where you will then find the Reset Password tool. Follow the prompts, which include signing in with your Apple ID and then selecting the user account you need to change the password for.
If you have FileVault turned on, you have two additional options to reset your user password. You can wait up to a minute on the user login screen for a prompt to show up that instructs you to press the power button to restart the Mac into Recovery mode. Follow the instructions to restart your computer, after which you should see a Reset Password window show up.
Any method we outlined is an effective way of regaining access to your account, or if your child forgot their password. Of course, if you can use this to get into your Mac, so can anyone who has access to your computer. You can prevent that from happening, you'll just need to be more proactive during setup with storing recovery keys and remembering your password. Here's how to lock down your Mac.
The macOS login screen can be customized in System Preferences under Users & Groups > Login Options. One of the options here allows for the login screen to display either a list of users or a name and a password field. When set to a list of users, all available accounts will be graphically listed to be selected from:
After trying to install OS X El Capitan onto my hard drive, I've come across a problem. When it asks me to sign into my Apple ID I do with the correct information. It then says that my username or password is incorrect. I know this is not the case because I have reset my password and tested it by signing into the App Store on my phone. Anyone else have this problem? Any fixes? Thanks.
When Git prompts you for your password, enter your personal access token. Alternatively, you can use a credential helper like Git Credential Manager. Password-based authentication for Git has been removed in favor of more secure authentication methods. For more information, see "Creating a personal access token."
Depending on your file server, this approach may not work consistently. On our Isilon storage, the SMB share would mount with the user-specified username every time. On another server I tested, the server would prefer the specific username that was last used to connect and keep using that username when mounting additional shares.
Thanks!Works in MacOS Mojave 10.14.6 to samba 4.7.6-Ubuntu: mounted two different shares on the same server, each owned by its own samba user, with different passwords; correctly assigned ownership (serverside) of newly created files in each share to the respective samba user.
Make sure to add the sources' password under the same user context as the nuget.exe is later used to access the package source. The password will be stored encrypted in the config file and can only be decrypted in the same user context as it was encrypted. So for example when you use a build server to restore NuGet packages the password must be encrypted with the same Windows user under which the build server task will run.
so been trying the console approach above. when i run the passwd command it appears to be working, i enter the password twice, but then the console just hangs. It never comes back to a command prompt.
please kindly help me out, i am working in a company that all the system has 4 different users and every of them has password and the code and directory didnt work for me please kindly help me with better procedure,.. i want to take all the passwords off plz
It worked for me w 10.5.8! Thanks a lot! I found this post about Admin Password reset last night. I stumbled across a G5 Dual 1.8 at our town recycling center, in mint condition, w maxed-out RAM, PCI-X slots, Belkin 3-FireWire PCI card, dual DVI video card, and lots of useable software. The previous owner had not required password for logon, so initial testing was easy. To install any new software, or migrate my own disk contents over to it from my old PATA drives, I needed Admin access. So, this procedure saved the day.
and changed the admin account password that you need to use to logon to the computer but apparently there is another admin account not shown in the above that prevents me from downloading any software updates from apple.
Hey I bought a macbook (the all white ones) but i dont have the password to get into it, and i was wondering if anyone knows how to reset the password? i also dont have the disk that usually comes with it. Thank you
Most hackers will take over a computer remotely, as you can do it from anywhere in the world (which means that foreign spies no longer have to infiltrate a society to get secrets), and that is what a password protects against. 2ff7e9595c
Comments